AI agents

Tool use, function calling, orchestration and the protocols that let models act rather than only answer.

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arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 23

KwaiMind Technical Report

KwaiMind is a commercial image editing system that combines general editing capabilities with e-commerce specialization. It uses an agent-based data engine with 1.8 million editing pairs and a multimodal diffusion transformer trained through pre‑training, fine‑tuning, preference optimization, and online reinforcement learning. The system is guided by a vision‑language judge and specialized rewards for click‑through rate, text rendering, and product consistency, and it achieves top scores on ImgEdit, GEdit, REDEdit, and the new Ecom‑Bench, while improving predicted and actual CTR in offline and online experiments.

By Junlong Wu, Zijun Li, Yuting Hu, Jia Sun, Pengcheng Wei, Yimin Zhou, Honglie Wang, Huaiqing Wang, Dewen Fan, Fei Zuo, Haixuan Gao, Lihui Peng, Tingxuan She, Yuqing Li, Boheng Zhang, Fan Yang, Wenwu Ou
arXiv AI
Sep 23

ScholarStack: Layered Research Asset Orchestration and Cross-Task Reuse for Scientific Agents

arXiv:2609.23735v2 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific agents support a range of literature-based research tasks, such as retrieval, question answering, evidence-grounded generation, and claim as...

By ScholarSeed AI Team, Caoqinwei Gong, Xue Jiang, Wei Luo, Xiaoyu Qiu, Jiayi Sheng, Yi Wang, Zheng Yu, Ao Zhang, Haifan Zhang, Hanwei Zhang, Jihai Zhang, Yuan Cao, Wei Chen, Liyun Dai, Wenkai Fang, Guanglei Wang, Kai Ying, Tingyu Zhu, Wotao Yin
Simon Willison
Sep 22

Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war

The article reports the release of new AI models: Claude Opus 5.5 by Anthropic and GPT‑6 Sol and GPT‑6 Luna by OpenAI, noting that GPT‑6 variants are priced at half the cost of their GPT‑5.6 counterparts. It provides a detailed pricing table comparing input, cached input, and output costs across several models, highlighting how GPT‑6 Luna is among the cheapest ever offered by OpenAI. The author also comments on visual differences in model outputs, noting that GPT‑6 outputs are more muted compared to GPT‑5.6.